Below is a summary of the topics from the daily lesson as delivered by our teacher, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a – yesterday after the Ma'ariv prayer on Monday night, the eve of the Tenth of Tevet – the Hilula of Mohara"n"t 5786, Parshat Vayechi:

1. The month of Tevet is the cleft of the rock, only one who fasts for 40 days and 40 nights can enter the cleft of the rock.
2. Hashem told Elijah to eat a little more before the cleft of the rock, whereas for Moshe Rabbeinu, Hashem told him not to eat. Because one cannot be like the tzaddik.
3. Now is the greatest yahrzeit there is.
4. The Chatam Sofer says that on the Tenth of Tevet, they sit and judge in Heaven whether the Holy Temple will be built.
5. Everyone who attends the Hilula will merit the resurrection of the dead.